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excited to finally share that I have recently joined @0x9212ce55 and the talented team at @nuconstruct and we are pleased to officially announce we are coming out of stealth with our seed announcement below!

fwd deployed aristocrat

X is full of people laundering resume prestige through the thinnest possible affiliations. Many such cases.

@ThreeHatsInARow @bartlebytaco hes not a jazz musician

@bartlebytaco Admittedly, I had always assumed John Waters would know where to get heroin in Baltimore

i’ve watched this ten times today and laughed every time. the idea of meeting a guy for the first time and asking him where you could buy heroin in baltimore is so good

@zeta_globin lotta money in pop science

had a heartwarming chat with my boss recently about how we both hate theoretical physicists more than any other demographic on the planet for how they butchered the sanctity of science with string theory and so much more non-predictive accommadative bullshit

what the fuck is this

TL;DR Blockspace allocation is matching supply with demand. MEV refers to a laundry list of frictions than can be incidental to this process. MEV is not a precise term and that makes it difficult to work with. There has been very good early literature, but the term has largely outlived its usefulness.

@barnabemonnot @ethereumfndn @TimBeiko @ralexstokes excited to see what you do next!

Excited to announce this evolution of Protocol, the @ethereumfndn teams stewarding, researching and developing the Ethereum protocol. After our re-launch of Protocol in June last year, @TimBeiko, @ralexstokes and I are now passing the torch to our talented colleagues @corcoranwill @kevaundray and @fredrik0x. They are taking on the task of delivering on Scaling, UX and Hardness objectives, with the protocol strawmap in their pocket (strawmap.org). --- It is also time to announce that I made the decision to leave the Ethereum Foundation, my home for the past 6.5 years ❤️ I am so grateful for this opportunity I had, to work with amazing individuals, on the most impactful project there is. Looking back from when I started (here it is -> x.com/barnabemonnot/…), it has been a wild ride from early EIP-1559 work, to the Merge, to MEV markets, to staking, finality, interoperability and UX; and from my beginnings in the Robust Incentives Group to co-leading Protocol for the past year. Over this past year, our Protocol priorities, particularly our "Improve UX" work, shifted my attention to nearer-term questions. Throughout, I've been excited to take on a more product-centric view. Making Ethereum's unique features more available to users today is on my mind; so is participating in the plurality of ways that Ethereum gets built. I'd love to hear from friends old and new about what excites them at the moment, and share where I'm at. Please reach out!

@ExaltedFoks crowbar

Give me more metal recs please

@PA_Supremacist one of my fav buildings

That picture is quite literally Richmond Main Street station today (Train service is starting to be more common there but the highway being that close to the station building is diabolical)

Ok now I’m getting on my soapbox and let’s call this what it actually is: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and the broader unicorn ecosystem spent YEARS building quasi-public markets because it benefited them enormously: -inflated valuations -employee liquidity -insider cash-outs -perpetual fundraising -hype cycles -media signaling -and public-market style price discovery WITHOUT public-market disclosure obligations The entire game was engineered around dancing on the edge of Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act. SPVs Nominee holders Forward contracts Synthetic exposure Transfer restrictions Feeder vehicles “Access” products All designed to get the benefits of being public while avoiding the responsibilities of being public. And now, after years of insiders getting rich off this gray-market ecosystem, suddenly they want to control who gets access, who gets liquidity, who can transfer, who gets information, and who gets to participate. Sorry. That’s bullshit. You created the monster. You fed the monster. You pumped valuations using the monster. You allowed insiders and connected funds to monetize the monster. Now outsiders finally show up and suddenly everyone wants to pretend private markets are some sacred country club? No. The entire structure was intentionally designed to avoid the spirit of Section 12(g) while still harvesting public-market dynamics. And this is EXACTLY why Congress created 12(g) in the first place — because companies were effectively becoming public without disclosure, transparency, or equal treatment of market participants. We already saw this movie with Facebook, SharesPost, SecondMarket, and the pre-IPO secondary boom. The SEC literally warned about this exact trajectory over a decade ago. You cannot spend 10 years manufacturing quasi-public liquidity and then suddenly scream “private company!” once the market becomes inconvenient for insiders.

@TheStalwart cobra problem

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more ft.com/content/8ee0d3…

@TheStalwart we cant build bridges any more we dont know how to do it

The UFO mythos is, in my view, one of America’s most lasting and distinctive contributions to world culture - an almost unique blend of supernatural belief, technological angst and political paranoia

shit shit getting spammed by chinese bots man this is hell

@lukeburgis @teortaxesTex its lunacy. shaping play dough is not engineering.

“Alignment” is not a native category of any serious moral tradition I know. It is a control-system metaphor that frontier AI labs are now trying to convert into a moral anthropology.

@wotancore if one cant imagine themselves living in the dc, philly, or boston metro then maybe they are better off in new york or california.

If one is American, why would they live anywhere other than New York or California?

@SamoBurja its slopulism

Some tech billionaires trying very hard to be media personalities, podcast hosts and so on, and developing personal brands is an indication some residual democratic force remains at play in society.

@SidKhurana3607 montgomery md you mean

Counties by % of Asian adults (>25) with a bachelor's degree or higher: Union, OH (88%) Story, IA (87%) Tippecanoe, IN (86%) Chester, PA (85%) Montgomery, VA (84%) Delaware, OH (83%) Mercer, NJ (83%) Forsyth, GA (83%) Somerset, NJ (83%) Fulton, GA (82%)

Ed Tech is snake oil.

one of your side quests should be to build out your own personal library based on your interests and goals save multiple copies of docs, pdfs, and rare books before they get buried or disappear lost to algo slopification and those who would rather control what you have access to